Quotes About Advocacy

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know.

My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an issue that they care about and their own authentic way of expressing and sharing their message and working for change. When you speak authentically about something that matters to you, your voice has even more power.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

I always said if I had a platform to speak, I am going to speak. I feel it is just important, not only for African American-related things but world things in general.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have a platform. And it's my job and my duty to continue to push the boundary for equality on all spectrums.

As footballers we have a massive platform that we should be using way more than we actually are.

If you're passionate about it, speak up about it. Just show up, do your part, and make your voice heard, because at the end of the day, all we have is our voice and our platforms and our character.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

That's my passion. To make sure everybody is treated equally. To make sure we get equal justice. To make sure that everybody is on the same level playing field.

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.

There are plenty of Muslim women who are backbones of the community, but they aren't usually at the forefront. There just aren't a lot of me out there - women in hijabs, doing what I do.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.